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View from NNW showing sluice of lower city mills
SC 676244
Description View from NNW showing sluice of lower city mills
Date 23/4/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 676244
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Lower City Mills and Granary, West Mill Street, Perth These mills were built in 1805-8 as meal mills, complementing the nearby Upper City Mills which had been rebuilt in 1792. The mills were driven by an internal low-breast paddle wheel 3.74m wide by 4.27m in diameter. This latterly drove three pairs of millstones, though there may originally have been more. This shows the sluice which controlled the flow of water past the mill wheel. When this sluice was open, as seen here, the water did not run through the wheel, and when it was closed the water could be run through the wheel. This mill was used until the early 1960s. It then lay empty for about 20 years until it was refurbished as a working mill, with associated shop, tea room, and craft workshops. It is the best preserved of the large water-powered urban meal mills which were at one time common in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/11/30
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/676244
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